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Issue Details

Issue #129
Published May 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Ghost of Lois Lane!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

8 page Superman story "The Ghost of Lois Lane"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Professor Grail
Synopsis After Superman accidentally causes Professor Grail's experimental teleporter chair to explode while Lois is sitting in it with his x-ray vision, he sees visions of a ghostly Lois. But Lois communicates through Jimmy's new typewriter to let Superman know that she is trapped in the fourth dimension and can be returned by the pull of a lever in Professor Grail's lab.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #77 (October 1967); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #38; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page advertisement "Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park"

Characters Superman; Emmett Kelly

Half page Peg filler "You men are all alike"

Genre Gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Super-Attractions"

Notes Promotes upcoming issues of Action, Adventure, and Lois Lane.

6 page Superman story "Clark Kent, Fireman of Steel!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Fire Chief Hogan
Synopsis Assigned to join the fire department for a few days for a story, Clark must protect his secret identity and deal with a skeptical fire chief.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #197 (June-July 1967); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #8/1969

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pops ad"

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Supergirl in Action Comics"

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Editorial replies promote an upcoming Superbaby "untold tale" in Superboy, and Supergirl's first appearance in Action.

9 page Superman; An Untold Tale of Superman story "The Girl in Superman's Past"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lori Lemaris; Lois Lane
Synopsis Superman recalls his college romance with Lori Lemaris, a mermaid from sunken Atlantis.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #1 (1960); in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #217 (June-July 1969); in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn; in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

Half page advertisement "Tootise Roll Fudge ad"

Letters /